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§1 Plant
Artemisia arctica Less.
vernacular boreal sagebrush — species · Asteraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Subshrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Artemisia
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Native
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 23 counties across 2 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -62 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 120 min.
- Precipitation
- 10–60 in/yr
- pH range
- 4.5–7.7
- Root depth
- 12 in min.
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 1.5 ft
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- Moderate
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Summer
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 5,296,606
- Propagation
- cuttings
§3e
Use & availability
- Nursery stock
- No
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 23 counties across 2 states/territories.
Alaska view state ↗ 22 N ▾
- Aleutians East 02013
- Aleutians West 02016
- Anchorage 02020
- Bethel 02050
- Chugach 02063
- Copper River 02066
- Denali 02068
- Dillingham 02070
- Fairbanks North Star 02090
- Haines 02100
- Juneau 02110
- Kenai Peninsula 02122
- Ketchikan Gateway 02130
- Kodiak Island 02150
- Lake and Peninsula 02164
- Matanuska-Susitna 02170
- Nome 02180
- North Slope 02185
- Northwest Arctic 02188
- Southeast Fairbanks 02240
- Yakutat 02282
- Yukon-Koyukuk 02290
Montana view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ARAR9 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/7461679 ↗Record version
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